A Regatta Secretary Drowned
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The port Fairy Regatta, which from the entries received and the arrangements made promised to be very successful, was suspended after the first three…
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Drowned While Bathing. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Singleton
A promising child of Mr. Thomas Ball's, proprietor of the Railway Hotel, was drowned this evening whilst bathing. The river was running very strong, and the little follow was carried out of his depth, and swept…
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A few minutes past eleven o'clock on Tuesday, night last, information reached us that an accident had occurred in the Penrith railway yard. We were quickly on the scene, and found that the…
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The body of an elderly mail was found floating under the Queen's Wharf, Newcastle, on Friday evening. The police have failed to obtain any clue as to the identification ef the body, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident at Lismore. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Lismore
A young man named Clarence Davis met with a fatal accident yesterday while going home with a dray. The reins became entangled in his legs, and he fell in front of the wheel, which passed over him, crashing his…
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LONDON, February 28.—The coroner's jury in the case of the recent murder or a woman in Whitechapel, has returned an open verdict. Owing to the lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Supposed Drowning at Tilpa. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Louth
Yesterday a shooting party st Tilpa discovered a boat floating in the river with no car on board. After inquiries were made it was found to be the property of John Peters, an old resident of Tilpa, who…
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LONDON, March 7.—In connection with, the fearful railway collision which occurred between two trains in a tunnel in New York on February 20, by which a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New York Railway Collision. Arrest of Directors. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 7
In connection with the terrible railway collision which occurred in a tunnel in New York on February 20, by which a number of lives were lost, Senator…
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A carter named William Chicken, 40, residing in. Yule street, Petersham, was driving his cart very rapidly along Parramatta-road, Annandale, on Saturday night, and when passing the…
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Several fires occurred at Adelaide on Saturday night, and a severe dust storm caused some fires in the country to assume alarming dimensions until the wise went down and a heavy downpour…
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GRENFELL, Monday.--A serious accident happened to Mr. M. J. O'Connor, commercial traveller, whilst proceeding towards Marsden on Saturday last. In crossing a…
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On Saturday afternoon a lad named Thomas Brown, 11 years of age, residing at 48 Rose- street, died suddenly at the Prince Alfred Hospital. It appears that he ate a large…
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BARCALDINE, Monday.--A contractor's ballast train ran into a material train 26 miles from here on Friday night, the points being wrong. The engine dashed into a siding where the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Court of Marine Inquiry to-day delivered judgment in the Despatch-Elingamite collision. It was to the effect that the collision was occasioned by an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rescue of a Child From Drowning. (By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wagga
Yesterday a girl named Josephine Devlin, 10 years of age, rescued her brother. 3 years old, from drowning in the Murrumbidgee at Wagga. The child had fallen into the water, and was sinking for the second time,…
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Mr. T.A. Brown, P.M., stationed at Germanton, sentenced James Healy, alias J. Flynn, a union shearer, on Monday, to three months' imprisonment for assaulting Henry Peacock, a non union…
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A painful accident happened on Monday evening to a man named Arthur Bryan, which resulted in the loss of a portien of his left leg. While at work at Darling Harbor removing cases…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Railway Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Singleton
A miner named Richard Moreton, working at the Rosedale Colliery, was found this morning on the railway line fearfully mutilated. It is supposed the 1 o'clock mail train went over him;…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Experiments made to find out the cause of the shell accidents at the Headsigo to show that the fuses were probably the means of bringing on a…
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